Back Cover Blurb

Babe sees Seattle as one giant, interconnected puzzle where coffee shops whisper to murals and crosswalk signals match the rhythm of raindrops. But when she and her siblings fly east to spend the summer with their grandfather in Philadelphia, they discover that some mysteries run deeper than treasure hunts in Pike Place Market.

In the shadow of Independence Hall, where every weathered brick holds secrets and basement renovations reveal Revolutionary War diaries, three young explorers find themselves untangling clues that span centuries. Their grandfather’s cryptic journal filled with maritime symbols. Initials carved into colonial church pews by their own ancestors. Hidden compartments in buildings where America was born.

From the rain-soaked alleys of the Pacific Northwest to the cobblestoned streets where the Continental Congress once met, this is a story about the invisible threads that connect us across time—and the electric moment when the past reaches out to touch the present.

Some puzzles have been waiting three hundred years for exactly the right person to solve them.